Peter Pan, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME, sentence 6

“The great white father,” he would say to them in a very lordly manner, as they grovelled at his feet, “is glad to see the Piccaninny warriors protecting his wigwam from the pirates.”

Who acts: great white father, braves, Piccaninny warriors · What happens: say, grovell, be, see, protect · To what, where: braves, lordly manner, feet, Piccaninny warriors, wigwam · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter X. THE HAPPY HOME. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great white father, braves, Piccaninny warriors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 father	amod
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 father	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
10	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 say	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 manner	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 manner	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 lordly	advmod
16	lordly	lordly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 manner	amod
17	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grovelled	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 grovelled	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grovelled	nsubj
21	grovelled	grovell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 say	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grovelled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 glad	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 glad	punct
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 glad	cop
28	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grovelled	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 glad	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 warriors	det
32	Piccaninny	Piccaninny	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 warriors	compound
33	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 see	obj
34	protecting	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 warriors	acl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wigwam	nmod:poss
36	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 protecting	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 pirates	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 pirates	det
39	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 protecting	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the great white father		braves = brave	a lordly manner		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	grovell	past	braves = brave			Father's feet		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	braves = brave not said here				glad property	tree rules
4	see in a quote	to-infinitive	braves = brave not said here	the Piccaninny warriors				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus
5	protect in a quote	gerund	the Piccaninny warriors not said here	Father's wigwam			from the pirates	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wigwam=Beneficiary from pirate=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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